Revolution · on foot
The first day
25 April 1974 hour by hour, from the Terreiro do Paço to the Carmo and the door of the political police
- Distance
- 2.4 km
- Duration
- 1 h 30 min
- Stops
- 7 stops
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Lisbon, 1910–1976
The city that resisted
Walking routes through the places where people fought the dictatorship — from the suffragists of the Republic to 25 April, with women at the centre of the story.
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Walks
Walks through the city, each with its own story: the stops in order, the map, what happened on every corner and who was there.
Women · on foot
Graça, the women’s hill
Seamstresses on strike, a republican propagandist, a women’s prison, a bar and a poet — Graça as they tell it
- Distance
- 1.7 km
- Duration
- 1 h 15 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
- Difficulty
- Demanding
Repression · on foot
The Estado Novo, explained
How a dictatorship lasted 48 years: the leader, the façade, the single party, the family, work and propaganda — from São Bento to Restauradores
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Duration
- 2 h 20 min
- Stops
- 9 stops
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Revolution · on foot
The figures of April
From the Aljube to São Bento, the lives of Soares, Cunhal and Salgueiro Maia — and those of Maria Barroso, Sofia Ferreira, Natália Correia and Pintasilgo
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Duration
- 1 h 40 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Repression · on foot
The machinery of repression
The prison, the court, the lock-ups, the police, censorship and propaganda — the dictatorship fitted into a kilometre and a half
- Distance
- 2.3 km
- Duration
- 1 h 25 min
- Stops
- 6 stops
- Difficulty
- Moderate
62 women in this story
Women who would not be silenced
Suffragists, writers, factory workers, doctors, political prisoners, underground activists. The resistance was written by women too — and this app begins with them.
Adelaide Cabete
1867–1935
obstetrician and gynaecologist
Alice Pestana
1860–1929
writer and educationalist (pen name Caiel)
Ana de Castro Osório
1872–1935
writer, pioneer of children’s literature
Angélica Viana Porto
1881–1938
philanthropist
Angelina Vidal
1847–1917
teacher
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
1878–1911
surgeon and gynaecologist
Diana Andringa
b. 1947
medical student
Domitila de Carvalho
1871–1966
first woman to attend the University of Coimbra
Manuela Porto
1908–1950
actress
Maria Antónia Palla
b. 1933
journalist
Maria Barroso
1925–2015
actress
Maria Clara Correia Alves
1869–1948
teacher
By theme
From the archives
Hear from those who were there
Women who resisted the dictatorship tell, in their own words, what they lived through. The testimonies were recorded by the Aljube Museum; each one is on the page of the person who gave it, next to the biography and the sources.
A documentary edited by Sofia Gomes for the exhibition “Women and Resistance – New Portuguese Letters and other struggles” (“Mulheres e Resistência – Novas Cartas Portuguesas e outras lutas”), with excerpts from the testimonies the Aljube Museum has been recording since 2015: sixteen women talk about resistance to the dictatorship and the struggle for women’s rights. This version has Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpretation; the version without LGP is on the same channel (XmUbNbnHgKg, 2022).
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Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, on YouTube. The player only connects to that site when you press “Watch”.
Margarida Tengarrinha
Testimony · 1 h 37 min
Conceição Matos
Testimony · 1 h 12 min
Diana Andringa
Testimony · 1 h 14 min
Isabel do Carmo
Testimony · 1 h 32 min
Helena Neves
Testimony · 1 h 24 min
Aurora Rodrigues
Testimony · 1 h 22 min
Maria Lourença Cabecinha
Testimony · 1 h 51 min
Helena Cabeçadas
Testimony · 1 h 30 min
Helena Pato
Testimony · 1 h 11 min
The dates
From the proclamation of the Republic to the 1976 Constitution, and what came after: 421 dates.
- 1910Proclamation of the Republic in Lisbon Republic
- 1911Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, the first woman to vote in Portugal Women
- 1926Military coup of 28 May ends the First Republic Repression
- 1933The Estado Novo Constitution comes into force Repression
- 1945Founding of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD) Opposition
- 1958Humberto Delgado: “Obviously, I’ll sack him!” (Obviamente, demito-o!) Opposition
- 1962Students’ Day banned: the 1962 academic crisis begins Students
- 1969Sophia de Mello Breyner and Maria Barroso stand as opposition candidates Women
- 1972The “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (New Portuguese Letters) are published Women
- 1974Celeste Caeiro e os cravos Revolution
- 1975Eleição da Assembleia Constituinte: 20 deputadas Women
- 1976Assembleia Constituinte aprova a Constituição da República Revolution
A project by
Onofriana.pt — A Herança Feminina do Fado
Onofriana.pt is devoted to the female heritage of fado. Resistência brings the same eye to the history of freedom in Lisbon: places, people and dates, told from museums, archives, newspapers and studies — with the sources on every page.
- walks
- 11walks
- places
- 93places
- people
- 102people
- women
- 62women
- dates
- 421dates
- sources
- 883sources